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Researchers pinpoint potential new therapeutic target for eye disease
Millions of people worldwide suffer varying degrees of vision-loss due to irreversible retinal degenerative diseases. This research offers hope that improved treatments are on the horizon.
20 Apr 2020
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Trinity appoints leading quantum technology scientist, Professor Ortwin Hess
Professor Hess will lead novel research into room-temperature quantum technologies, together with a network of collaborators from Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the UK and US.
14 May 2020
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Professor Luke O’Neill delivers Feinstein Institutes’ Marsh Lecture
The Feinstein Institutes’ Marsh Lecture was established as a forum for renowned scientists to share their expertise with Feinstein Institutes investigators.
28 Oct 2020
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Meet the super-nutritious new pasta with a greener footprint
Scientists have shown the tasty new pasta made from chickpeas greatly improves the environmental sustainability and nutritional quality of one of humanity’s most popular food chains.
16 Jul 2020
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Trinity—UK collaboration awarded £1.6 million to unveil the secrets of quantum thermodynamics
The QuamNESS consortium puts together researchers in University of Bristol, Queens University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin under the support of an EPSRC-SFI grant to explore the thermodynamics of quantum machines and technologies.
4 Aug 2020
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1 in 4 parents feel children didn’t learn enough during Covid school closures
A new survey of primary-school parents has provided a unique insight into parents’ experiences and concerns about home learning as a result of COVID-19.
21 Jul 2020
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Improving the learning experience for students with intellectual disabilities
The generous gift to the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) has come from The Rory McDonagh Trust.
8 Jul 2020
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Trinity’s technology transfer team wins Industry Engagement Impact Award
The team was succesful for their efforts with Intel, with whom a new research collaboration has recently been agreed to enable world-class research to continue between the global company, Trinity, and AMBER.
1 Dec 2020
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Scientists discover how TB puts the brakes on our immune engines
The scientists have also discovered how we can kick-start those engines back into gear – providing hope that improved treatment options could soon be on the horizon.
8 Jan 2020
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It’s electrifying! This is how Earth could be entirely powered by sustainable energy
The fully renewable energy-powered future envisioned by the team would require a significant “electrification” of our energy.
26 Dec 2020
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Stephen Sexton awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020
Irish poet, Stephen Sexton, has been awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2020, for his first collection of works, Oils & If All the World and Love Were Young.
26 Nov 2020
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School closures, exam uncertainty hurt student wellbeing, finds Trinity survey
A new survey of second-level students in schools in areas of social disadvantage shows school closures as a result of Covid-19 negatively impacted on their mental health.
28 Aug 2020
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Who has been infected with COVID-19 and why?
Dr Nollaig Bourke's research was awarded funding through the Rapid Response Call for Covid-19 from the Health Research Board and the Irish Research Council.
8 Jun 2020
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Why children must be the focus as lockdown eases
Social Work and Social Policy Professor Robbie Gilligan writes on the importance of placing children centre-stage as we exit lockdown. This opinion piece was first published by the Business Post.
14 May 2020
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Professor Aljosa Smolic wins prestigious innovator award
The award recognises pioneers of transformative technologies and showcases innovations that have had great impact on human experiences or are anticipated to do so in the near future.
17 Jul 2020
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Trinity researchers make asthma breakthrough
The discovery may eventually lead to improved therapeutic options for people living with asthma. The researchers behind the work, led by Professor Luke O'Neill, have uncovered a critical role for a protein (Caspase-11), which had previously never been implicated in the disease.
26 Feb 2020
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A new art of business leadership: Lessons from the COVID era
In an article first published in the California Management Review, Tanusree Jain, Louis Brennan, and Harry J. Van Buren III argue that leaders in the COVID-19 era should take this unique opportunity to think far outside the box.
26 Aug 2020
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Two Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC awards
Two Trinity researchers – Dr Emma Tomlinson and Dr Fiona Smyth - have received prestigious awards from the European Research Council (ERC) in the latest round of results announced.
17 Mar 2022
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Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC awards
Assistant Professor Claire Gillan and Dr Alessandro Lunghi have been awarded European Research Council Starting Grant Awards worth €3 million in the latest round of results, while Al Maktoum Associate Professor, Mohamed Ahmed, recently began his project here, which was retained on the funding list from a previous round.
3 Sep 2020
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Multidisciplinary team to lead €10.4 million project, 4-OCEANS
The project will assess the importance of marine life for human societies during the last two millennia, and consider how selected major socio-economic, cultural, and environmental forces variously constrained and enabled marine exploitation.
5 Nov 2020
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Trinity Long Room Hub celebrates 10 years as flagship research institute
The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute yesterday celebrated its 10th anniversary by highlighting the contribution of the Arts and Humanities to public debates in Ireland and internationally over the past ten years.
20 Feb 2020
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Confinement: the fear of death, the price of life and the risk of living
A fascinating opinion-editorial by Laurent Muzellec, professor in marketing, Trinity Business School, which was first published in the Irish Independent.
30 Apr 2020
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Trinity welcomes further investment in COVID-19 Research Project
Trinity College Dublin has welcomed the Government’s €4.8M investment into a collaborative partnership at the university researching the immune response to COVID-19.
3 Jul 2020
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain 2020 | Comhdháil lae ar líne
Tá leathchéad bliain imithe ó cuireadh an mórscríbhneoir Máirtín Ó Cadhain i gcré na cille.
20 Nov 2020
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Trinity wins Best Green Campus Award 2020
Trinity College Dublin won the Best Green Campus Award at The Education Awards 2020 on February 20 for its unsurpassed strong commitment to make a positive environmental impact and contribute to a sustainable future.
21 Feb 2020
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Experts release videos to help parents teach young children at home
The videos, which were released on UNESCO World and Copyright Book Day, aim to support literacy at home in a simple way and are targeted at children in early primary school and their parents.
24 Apr 2020
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Calls for new Taoiseach to make the 1926 census available online
As a panel discussion at Trinity College Dublin explored the significance of the Four Courts fire of 1922, and the destruction of the Public Records Office resulting in the loss of over 700 years of Ireland’s historical and genealogical records, the Taoiseach was called on to open the 1926 census and make them available online.
29 Jan 2020
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Trinity’s Grand Canal Innovation District takes step forward with plans for an Innovation Hub
Trinity College Dublin has today announced the first phase of the planned €1 billion Grand Canal Innovation District (GCID) - its proposed Innovation Hub.
20 Nov 2020
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Trinity moves to ease pressure on students in assessments
Trinity College Dublin’s Academic Council has today approved a series of measures to alleviate the stresses facing students as they approach their Semester 2 assessments.
8 Apr 2020
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Has business efficiency made Covid crisis worse?
Novel argument in praise of "redundancy" from Trinity Business School's Tanusree Jain and colleagues Adrian Zicari, Concepcion Galdon and Mario Aquino Alves. Published first in the Business Post.
28 May 2020